For the Anzac day game, Collingwood v. Essendon, a friend of mine grabbed a group of us tickets in the MCC members section. Now, perhaps I should preface this review by admitting that I would have normally been sitting in my Collingwood Members seat, as I have for every other game, amidst the crazies and loudmouths. Just to put things in context.
But in the MCC members section, this was not the rowdy footy spectating I was used to! All those collared shirts! All those designer handbags! All the polite applause! And while the rest of the supporters roared, my section remained quiet, with maybe a quiet mutter of dissent here and there.
I could blame this on Essendon supporters falling quiet after the middle of the second quarter (there wasn’t much to roar about after that point). But where was Collingwood? I could see the scarves throughout my section, but where were the shouts and the yells and the rude swearing?
Maybe it’s a sign of my lack of class, but put me with the loudmouths any day, thank you very much. That way when I involuntarily stand in my seat and shout for improper disposal I’ll be joined by a chorus of others, even louder than myself.
